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AMERICAblog: When Palin misquoted Thomas Jefferson, was she really quoting the Ladies Home Journal?

  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    I just did one of the spit-takes you see on a comedy show.

    LMAO.
  • canuck55 · 1 year ago
    She is thick as a post.
    I do not want Joe or Jane six-pack running the USA. I want a really smart person with a good heart running the USA, not someone who graduated at the bottom of their class, or went to 5 different colleges in the course of gettting one degree, or who was a journalism major who can't name one blessed newspaper, etc.
    What sort of morons are supporting these goofs??
  • lucky hussein · 1 year ago
    I'll tell you who:

    " I've been there," said Ellie Plessinger, a real estate consultant from Saganaw, Michigan, who extolled Palin's work on local schools. "If you can run the PTA, you can run the country "

    http://www.alternet.org/election08/100871/%27if...

    these people are stunningly poorly-educated, naive and mis-informed
  • blueoysterjoe · 1 year ago
    Palin's has so ... much ... knowledge in her brain that individual quanta of information are sometimes unable to break free, on account of it getting hung up on her extensive knowledge of the world. If anything, Palin needs to get dumber, not smarter, so that her knowledge may break free, like a moose storming through the passions of estrous.
  • comsympinko · 1 year ago
    I think she meant "No one ever went broke underestimating the wisdom of the American people."

    She and McTheusalah are banking on it.
  • triple7s · 1 year ago
    Palin's spokesperson told Nora on MSNBC that the Gov is SSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOO SMART, she thinks way too fast to be interviewed. I am in awe of her greatness.
  • lucky hussein · 1 year ago
    5 hours until d-day, god I hope this is a watershed moment for america. Biden is not going to let Palin out 'common-folk' him.
  • triple7s · 1 year ago
    OMG! The racist from MN, Bachman, is referring back to the S&L crisis.

    "The Keating Five became synonymous for the kind of political influence that money can buy. As the S&L failure deepened, the sheer magnitude of the losses hit the press. Billions of dollars had been squandered. The five senators were linked as the gang who shilled for an S&L bandit.

    S&L "trading cards" came out. The Keating Five card showed Charles Keating holding up his hand, with a senator's head adorning each finger. McCain was on Keating's pinkie."


    www.azcentral.com/news/election/mccain/articles...
  • seohio · 1 year ago
    John:
    I can't find a link to email you directly, so I hope you read this.
    I have a degree in journalism and a minor in political science (as Sarah Palin has). I know from my education at Marshall University that there were EXTENSIVE studies in US Supreme Court cases as part of the classes in the journalism field. Add to that the amount of Supreme Court cases in political science, and she should have at least a working knowledge of at least one case.

    Can you check into the coursework that was required for Palin to "earn" her degree?
  • FunMe · 1 year ago
    As I read somewhere:

    "When you know nothing, make up shit!"
  • adrie73 · 1 year ago
    Here's a short list of some famous quotes beginning with "Never underestimate..." that Palin may have been thinking about when she attributed that misquote to Jefferson, from brainyquotes.com:

    Robert A. Heinlein "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."

    Wilma Rudolph "Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit."

    Oliver Stone "Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy."

    Scott Adams "You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."

    (My favorite) Don DeLillo "Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies."
  • tduffy2 · 1 year ago
    Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
  • thegolux · 1 year ago
    Maybe she was thinking about Mencken's comment:
    "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American people."
  • mayachill · 1 year ago
    Here's a quote from Thomas Jefferson " honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." Unfortunately neither Palin or McCain have either one of those to their credits. I can only pray that the people of the USA wake up and realize we really can't afford to have McCain for president.